THROUGH GERMANY

I, the undersigned, hereby certify by my signature:

1) that the conditions established by Platten with the German embassy have been communicated to me;

2) that I submit to the instructions of the trip's leader, Platten;

3) that I have been informed of a notice from the "Petit Parisien" according to which the Russian Provisional Government threatens to prosecute for the charge of state treason those Russian subjects who travel through Germany;

4) that I assume full political responsibility for my journey;

5) that Platten has guaranteed me passage only as far as Stockholm.

April 9, 1917
Bern - Zurich
N. Lenin*

1917

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* This document was also signed by other departing participants. —Ed.

Written March 27 (April 9)

First published in 1924

in Leninist Miscellany II

Printed from a typewritten copy